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Hello all,I guess I am one of the few using this file for a program, but I have a question that I hope gets answered.
Using the current pqsurf.conf that I have, many of the SPECI METARs get ignored and are not saved to disk. For example, ALtus AFB (KLTS) had special METARs that weren't seen:
KLTS 110855Z 05013KT 10SM -TSRA SCT020 BKN029CB 12/10 A3004 RMK
AO2A PK WND 27063/0803 WSHFT 0819 OCNL LTG OHD TS OHD MOV E
PRESFR RAB0751DZE0751 SLP161 P0067 60077 T01240095 55008
$=
KLTS 110755Z AUTO 34018KT 10SM TS -DZ OVC060 14/09 A3001 RMK AO2
PK WND 01026/0719 LTG DSNT SW - E RAE0727DZB0727 PRESFR
SLP151 P0005 T01400094 $=
KLTS 110655Z AUTO 02013KT 5SM TS +RA BKN035 14/10 A3002 RMK AO2
LTG DSNT NE - SE RAB0612DZB0604E0612 TSB0640 PRESFR SLP156
P0005 T01370103 $=
There's an ob at 8:07Z and 8:23Z that simply aren't in the raw METAR
database file generated by my pqsurf.conf. On the other hand, I see
Charleston, SC SPECIs are in there:
KCHS 111056Z 36003KT 3SM BR CLR 08/08 A3021= KCHS 111131Z 00000KT 1 3/4SM BR CLR 09/08 A3021 RMK AO2= KCHS 111133Z 00000KT 3/4SM BR CLR 09/08 A3021 RMK AO2= KCHS 111133Z COR 00000KT 3/4SM BR CLR 09/08 A3021 RMK AO2= KCHS 111156Z 36003KT 2 1/2SM BR CLR 08/08 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP230 T00830078 10106 20072 51012=I do strip out the word "SPECI" in my program, but rest assured, in the Charleston obs above, they are there in the "inbetween" obs. The KLTS obs are in a file a make using the FILE header to save them in a raw file, although I did notice that the 8:07Z ob is missing from that file as well.
Anyone else seeing this? My pqsurf.conf entry is as follows:
WMO ^(metar ....|speci ....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
FILE domestic/surface_obs/(\2:yy)(\2:mmm)\2_\3
My pqact.conf entry, which is getting pretty much all of the SPECIs,
but not all (missing the 8:07Z Sunday KLTS ob), reads like this:
WMO ^S[AP].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
FILE /home/data/wxp/rawdata/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.sao
Thoughts?
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